Breakfast at the hotel was just as amazing today as it was our first day here. Actually, it might have tasted even better just by comparison! =] During our tour this morning we walked through the main sites of the Krakow Old Town. We met Maciek in the City Square, and from there we walked to Collegium Maius, the oldest part of the university in Krakow (which is where Maciek went to school). Then we walked to the Wawel Royal Castle, which was quite impressive....

I was so thrilled to be back in Krakow! But also bummed that this was our last full day in Poland. We began our day in Krakow with a tour of Kazimierz, a historical district of Krakow that was home to the Jewish community from the 14th century until World War II. This is where Steven Spielberg shot the film Schindler's List, although the actual Jewish Ghetto in Krakow was located in a different place. Maciek also took us to a courtyard where one of the better-...

I need to stop being such an idiot about transportation. I realized Sunday evening that I had booked a train ticket to Leipzig on Thursday an hour after I got out of my last lecture. At the time, an hour seemed reasonable... but when I started calculating how long it would take to get from my lecture hall up on the hill to the city center, wait for a tram, get to my flat, grab my luggage, and get back to the train station in the city center, I realized there wa...